Buffalo Development Project, Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh This study attempts to estimate the income from native poultry production and analyze the efficiency of resources used covering three coastal districts of Bangladesh namely Noakhali, Patuakhali and Satkhira. A total of 180 poultry rearers were selected from different villages of the districts using pu...

Motivated by high and rising sex ratios in countries such as India and China, we formulate a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of economic development on parental sex choice when sons are culturally prized and children provide old age support. Two key assumptions drive our model. First, the cultural valuation of children vary not only with gender but also with marital status. In pa...

There has been a monotonic increase in research investigating the performance of commercial banks across globe. This is recognition that banking and financial sector significant contribution to service national output. paper analyzed determinants bank’s category macroeconomic, bank-specific structure factors Malawi. The study employed an autoregressive distributed (ARDL) approach/bounds cointeg...

BACKGROUND Management of chronic diseases requires patients to adhere to recommended health behavior change and complete tests for monitoring. While studies have shown an association between low income and lack of adherence, the reasons why people with low income may be less likely to adhere are unclear. We sought to determine the association between household income and receipt of health behav...

background and objectives: evidence shows that transfer of hospital governance to board of trustees can positively influence hospital performance. iran has initiated implementing such a transformation and a number of hospitals have been involved in this reform. this study aimed to explore the effectiveness of such a reform by examining performance profile of a sample hospital across the interve...

The house price-to-income ratio (PIR) is widely used as an affordability indicator. This paper complements the cross-sectionally focused literature by proposing a tractable model for PIR dynamics. Our predicts that very persistent and correlated to lagged aggregate output. Cross-country analysis confirms this prediction provides evidence long-term, positive, significant relationship between pro...

Background: Capitation payment is the best-known strategy for paying providers in primary health care. Since health care needs and personal characteristics play an essential role in health care utilization and resource spending, there is a growing tendency on risk adjustment models among health researchers.  The objective of this systematic review was to examine the weights used for risk adjust...